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component: ROOT
version: "2026.2"
slug: ROOT/integrations/index
canonical_url: "https://docs.gradle.com/develocity/2026.2/integrations/agentic-ai/skills/"
title: "Skills"
description: "Reusable skills that package Develocity expertise as guided workflows your AI client discovers and follows to complete common tasks."
keywords:
  - "api"
  - "developer experience"
status: current
---

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# Skills

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Skills are guided workflows that an AI client follows to complete a task, encoding expertise as step-by-step instructions rather than code or APIs.

A skill follows the open [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) format: a set of instructions, plus optional scripts and reference files, that an AI client reads on demand. The same skill works across any skills-compatible client. Develocity skills can draw on your Develocity data through the [MCP Servers](https://docs.gradle.com/develocity/2026.2/integrations/agentic-ai/mcp-servers/).

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## How Skills Work

An AI client uses skills through progressive disclosure:

1.  **Discovery**: At startup, the client loads the name and description of each available skill.
    
2.  **Activation**: When your request matches a skill’s description, the client loads that skill’s full instructions.
    
3.  **Execution**: The client follows the instructions, running any bundled scripts and reading referenced files as needed.
    

The client loads a skill’s full instructions only when a task calls for them, so it can keep many skills available at once. It selects the skill whose description matches your request, and some clients also let you start a skill directly.

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## Install Skills

Develocity distributes its skills through a marketplace served by your Develocity instance. After you add the marketplace in your AI client, the published skills become available to it. See [Getting Started](https://docs.gradle.com/develocity/2026.2/integrations/agentic-ai/skills/getting-started/) for installation steps.

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## Available Skills

Develocity publishes the following skills:

**Develocity Build Caching Optimizer** — Diagnoses and fixes cache misses in Gradle and Maven projects, then opens a pull request with the changes.